I also would be happy (and surprised) to see references to a divine origin of Sanskrit. It is true that Sanskrit is daivī vāk (Bhartṛhari) “divine language” or “language of the gods”, but this does not mean that is has a divine origin. In Brahmanical circles, at least since Kātyāyana and Patañjali, Sanskrit is eternal and has no origin at all.

 Johannes Bronkhorst

 

On 27 Jul 2022, at 13:36, Buchta, David via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Hi,

George Cardona has a 1990 paper, "On Attitudes Towards Language in Ancient India" that might be helpful. It was published as #15 of the Sino-Platonic Papers from the Department of Oriental Studies at UPenn. I can dig up a PDF as needed.

Best,

Dave

--
David Buchta, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit
Department of Classics
Brown University

On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 6:08 AM Gruenendahl, Reinhold <gruenen@sub.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:

Dear list members,

I would be very grateful for any references to the concept of a divine origin of Sanskrit in primary and/or secondary literature.

With thanks in advance

and best wishes

Reinhold Grünendahl

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